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I'm sick of MMA. 

Exciting!

Is there going to be a promo video to go along with the release?

I want to see them take a Cross-Hook combo to the chin.

Fedor vs Arlvoski      Im down with anything, Fedor!

With all this talk of AA working on his boxing with Freddie, I wonder how much he's been working his takedown defense which is what he should be the most worried about.  I can Fedor taking him down and dominating on the ground.  I can see AA right now on his back, Fedor in side control.

It would be cool to set a date soon as well regardless of location so we can start making travel arrangements?  Worst case scenario couldn't we just use the park again like the first day of the gathering last April?

Awesome,

The more people to spar the better. 

East Coast Inhabitants,

We are looking to have a day of hard sparring late January / early February at my gym in State College, PA to help our fighters ready themselves for the April gathering.  Right now we have around five people looking to fight in April from all different weight classes.  Our plan is to get a number of schools from the east coast and mid-west to come and train for a day, spar, hang out, etc.  We want to make the matches as close to Gatherings style as possible while still keep people safe and keeping it in the realm of "sparring" and not fighting.  However, we also want to have everyone push themselves and wear minimal protective gear and use larger diameter sticks.  We also have both a cage and ring to hold the matches in so we will be able to get twice as many matches in during the day if need be.

We would like to avoid WEKAF head gear and instead use fencing masks.  We would also like to limit the hand protection to equal to or lighter than street hockey gloves.  However, if wearing more protection is the only way you would be willing to spar we can deal with it.   We simply want to avoid any non-realistic behavior due to protective gear.

Please post back if you are interested and as soon as we drum up some interest we will set a date that works for everyone.  We have about three other schools interested in joining us so far.  Please don't be shy, come and spar so we can all make ourselves better!  Any questions feel free to email me at ryangruhn@hotmail.com.

Respectfully,

Dog Ryan Gruhn
www.LionHeartFit.com
Head Instructor / MA Program Director
Lion Heart Fitness - State College, PA

WOW. 

I'm grateful to have the oppertunity to work with Youth in our Youth Martial Arts program at my gym.  We graduated thirty students tonight to their next belt including one black belt and one assistant instructor!  Nothing gives me more joy than to see the smiles on their faces when they put on their new belts!

It was also on G4 so the keyboard fights were a perfect fit!

3:30 of which clip?

What a fight.  Manny ate him up all night with the false lead jab.  Kept to the outside and Oscar didn't know what to do.

Guro,

So I can get it straight in my head please let me know if I am following correctly:

Tribe - (insert name here) Dog

Pack - (insert name here) Dog, C-Dog's & Dogs

DBMAA Members - all of the above plus people who are on this forum.

Is this correct?

Quote from: Ronin on September 26, 2008, 08:04:40 AM

Some fighters are great IN SPITE of what they do, not because of it.

That's true, but this wasn't the case.

Note that Hatton who ridiculed Mayweather's training, swallowed his pride enough to hire Mayweather senior as his trainer.
He won his recent fight by totally dominating his opponent. Better body positioning, better reactions inside. He even stated how some of his old habits were still exposing him to punches.

Mayweather senior hasn't coached or cornered Jr. for a decent number of years.  From what I gather father and son have never been further apart.

I'll quadruple that!  I'm all about seeing documentary style videos on how people prep, how they train, etc.

There is a fine line between fighting and fornacating Guro.    Add in the emotions of winning a big fight and watch out!

I'll third stickgrappling!

Pretty Cool!

I'm with Dana on that:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drhrxpp-G6g[/youtube]
Start watching at 2:50

Impressive fight from Sherk last night!  It received fight of the night and rightly so.  Bummer about Anderson & Cote.  I hate seeing people get injured and unable to continue.  On a more positive note I think I saw just about every variation in Silva's footwork last night, how cool!  His footwork is so impressive and I'm glad that we are finally seeing fighters that can switch leads at will in a technical way.  I also give props to Cote for being able to keep up with Anderson and have the eye to see what Silva was doing with his footwork.  Mark D. had some great cornering advice as well.  Amongst many other things he mentioned that when Anderson stops moving he is timing Cote and I believe this to be true.

He lost to BJ but I don't think that was because of the lack of vitamins.  IMHO superior reach and take down defense is what won that fight for BJ.

Big weekend for UFC.  I'll be excited to see Anderson put on another display.  Sean Sherk is also fighting Tyson Griffin which I am looking forward to!  We are having Sean in State College in December so we are all hyped about seeing him fight!

Looks great Crafty,

Awesome job Ron!

I'm wondering if Kimbo took a dive?

I never though he was really on top of anything to dive off of.

I'm grateful for a renewed interest in the martial arts and getting over the hump of feeling so burnt out!